Archive for the ‘Cooking’ Category

Avoid nasty food-borne illness by handling and grilling meat properly
With the first long weekend of the summer season on the horizon, many Canadians are planning outdoor gatherings, and firing up the barbecue is bound to be on the agenda. Unfortunately, eating food that has not been cooked properly could lead to some unpleasantness in the form of stomach cramps and vomiting.

THE SUPER BOWL
How brilliant is this: First, take a healthful food that costs just pennies per serving and requires barely any effort to make. Then, sex it up with sweet toppings and extra ingredients. Finally, put it in a cute, portable container. That’s hot oatmeal to go, the restaurant industry’s newest answer to breakfast on the run.

Must-try foods of the world
Your guide to not eating in a tourist trap when you’re travelling.

Community News Briefs
Assured Hospice offers free grief groups in Sequim. “Grief & Social Support: After the First Year” is an ongoing, drop-in grief group held from 1:30-3 p.m. Tuesdays at Assured Hospice, 24 Lee Chatfield Ave., Sequim.

Farmers Market Find: Rhubarb
The leaves are toxic, but the long red-green stalks are safe and have an unparalleled tart flavor.

Rhapsodic Hungarian recipes
Antonia Szenthe likes to read Jewish cookbooks such as “Spicy Eszter” Bodrogi’s “Spice and Soul: Jewish Cooking Here and Now” and adapt the recipes to her family’s taste. She also enjoys experimenting to adapt pork-laden traditional Hungarian recipes to kosher style.

Raymond Blanc: To the Manoir born
Raymond Blanc is such a hyperkinetic figure – dashing impetuously here and there, flitting about his kitchen at the Manoir aux Quat’Saisons for the TV cameras, prodding and encouraging his sous-chefs – it’s hard to imagine him sitting still for long, let alone lying down during an interview. But to be fair, he had recently broken his leg. In five places.

Star Ocean: Till the End of Time – 4D Mode Guide
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Chicago chef to prepare White House state dinner for Mexican president
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Chicago chef Rick Bayless is at the White House getting ready for Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s visit.

Budapest Jewish Food Scene Takes Off
Rahel Raj calls herself a 21st-century Yiddishe mama.